As Amended
SEC. 69-23-303. Definitions.
For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the meaning ascribed herein unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(a) "Approved program" means a waste pesticide disposal program approved by the Department of Agriculture and Commerce pursuant to the provisions to Secs. 69-23-301 through 69-23-313 and other state and federal enactments.
(b) "Commission" means the Commission on Environmental Quality.
(c) "Department" means the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
(d) "Person" means any individual, trust, firm, joint-stock company, public or private corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, state, or any agency or institution thereof, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state or any interstate body, and includes any officer or governing or managing body of any municipality, or political subdivision, or any officer or employee thereof. This definition shall not include the United States government or any agency, department or other division thereof.
(e) "Pesticides" means pesticides as defined in Section 69-23-3, Mississippi Code of 1972.
(f) "Waste pesticide" means any pesticide formulation which cannot be used according to label directions in Mississippi because of cancellation or suspension of its federal or state registration, or deterioration of the product or its label, and any pesticide formulation whose active ingredients are not clearly identifiable because of label deterioration or because the pesticide is not stored in its original container.
SOURCES: Laws, 1993, ch. 613, Sec. 2, eff from and after passage (approved April 12, 1993)